I hate to be the bearer of bad news.. That’s way beyond the number of times Lon Chaney Jr. appeared in his on or off brand persona Lawrence Talbot, so when I finish my review series and name a champion of the film type in a ranked list description, it will be no surprise.I’ve avoided House of Monsters style mashups so far, giving exceptions only to those which focus squarely on the werewolf character, and thus watched the…Waldemar Daninsky's lycanthropic curse origin story features no Frankenstein (monster or doctor) that I was aware of, but delivers plenty of Naschy wolfman action, a vampire dandy with a swinging vampire wife and more than enough garish red & green lit gothic castle interiors to keep me satisfied. 60s gothic in three dimensions!
And wtf do they really think we'll buy a love story between the teenage girl and the creepy middle-aged man? Apparently the distrubutor needed another Frankenstein flick! Lacking any material with anything remotely connected to Frankenstein, he simply takes this early Paul Naschy vehicle,…A list that is trying to contain every horror film made that is not lost and is found on the…This list collects every film from the Starting List that became They Shoot Pictures Don't They's 1000 Greatest Films. Which doesn’t explain anything.
Old-fashioned but cozy, it has enough atmospherics and fog to sustain its short runtime and although several latter entries are more fun, it's really intriguing to see where it all started.I'm a softie. Thankfully he wound up reprising the role about a dozen times, with the cursed Daninsky getting into all kinds of monsterous adventures. Soon it comes ... Well worth a read.…Hi there and first off let me start by welcoming you to this blogging collaboration, whose purpose is to not…This is the complete list of films, listed chronologically, from Michael Weldon's essential and influential The Psychotronic Encyclopedia of Film,…WORK IN PROGRESS UPDATE: Finished A-L on 3/17/2019. Some former high school sweethearts are reunited after coming home from college. I mean come on you don't need Sherlock Holmes the champion of deduction for this is a no brainer.. right? His character wasn't particularly interesting or charming either. Just for starters, this is a 3D Spanish werewolf film from the 60s, so we’re already hitting a very specific niche. A man suffers from the curse of lycanthrope and seeks help from doctor and wife team. From the eponymous mammoth reference guide of genre cinema, animated fare, science…I recently acquired copies of both Michael Weldon's Psychotronic Encyclopedia and Psychotronic Video Guide and this list is all films…The films recommended or mentioned (sometimes really just mentioned in passing..but in a positive light...ish) by Sam Ashurst and Dan…A listing of the films covered in EURO GOTHIC: CLASSICS OF CONTINENTAL HORROR CINEMA by Jonathan Rigby.My collection of movies to create Grindhouse nights
I feel, when watching any random movie with Paul Naschy, that he was something special. You'd rightfully expect the monstrous carnage…Not really lot of Frankensteining or frankenstein monstering but there are cleavage vampires, satanic rituals and groovy werewolf transformation scenes so this is a 100% win.I finally saw Exhumed Films' newly struck 3-D 35mm print (from the 3-D negative that Sam Sherman has apparently been hiding all these years) and holy shit was it beautiful. Each day he ... Four women spend the night in an old deserted sanitarium on a mountain. The costumes and sets are quite nice and there's some nice moody fog and lights and colours, but mostly this is a drab and dull werewolf film. They both turn out to be vampires and end up dueling it out with the werewolf star. For the most part this was in the generation spanning role of Waldemar Daninsky, a sexually irresistible melancholic middle aged man comprised of the following traits: internally Gothic romance, externally Robin Williams, conceptually 007 globetrotting badass.
One of the few really passionate geeks out there, on the same level of geekiness as Luigi Cozzi and Mario Bava. All the women just scream and/or giggle and are terrible. The American distributors added a very, very, very silly pre-credit which explains that the Frankenstein family evolved into the Wolfstein family and that's it - the monster of a mad scientist suddenly becomes a supernatural wolfman.The story is simple. Frankenstein's Bloody Terror (1968) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. Unknowingly, the cursed man has summoned two vampires ... The English-dubbed "Frankenstein's Bloody Terror" print available from Horror Theater Video begins with an amusing explanation as to why it was given that title, even though Frankenstein's creature isn't featured. I mean, I go into these Euro horror flicks expecting a certain level of beauty but the depth added by the 3-D photography made all the difference in the world. The only other Naschy werewolf flick I've seen is If only the film were as strange as all the stuff around it. They meet Waldemar, who is a local count. This…All the films mentioned by name in Kim Newman's definitive encyclopedia of horror films, Nightmare Movies. A man whose ancestors executed a witch is turned into a werewolf by modern-day descendants of the executed witch. Fun, atmospheric and slightly unhinged, The movie starts off simple enough. Hell of a good time.I first saw this as the truncated, misleadingly titled* US cut on a summer Saturday afternoon when I was quite young, and the absolutely off-the-wall savagery of Paul Naschy's Waldemar Daninsky when he transforms into a werewolf was like nothing I'd ever seen before. In Medieval France a warlock is be-headed and his wife tortured and executed. If he doesn't get rid of it, he turns into a killer werewolf when the moon is full. Confused about why this is name-checking Frankenstein in the title, when no Frankensteins are in evidence? Spanish actor Paul Naschy has played a werewolf in 14 different movies (at least).